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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1940
Page
6
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Mrs. D. R. York formerly Sue Carothers died at her Llano home last Thursday and was buried Saturday in Llano cemetery. Born March 8 1885 in Dime Box Texas she married D. R. York January 4 1908 at Wright's Creek Llano County. Survived by husband three children two sisters two brothers and four grandchildren. Funeral conducted by Rev J C Jones with Miles Buttery in charge. pallbearers named.
The York and Churchill families express gratitude for friends' acts of kindness during illness and death, noting they cannot thank everyone personally due to circumstances.
The Christmas candle traces to early Christian era practices with the Yule candle lighting Nativity celebrations. Candle lighting marked by Norse mid winter sun turning and by the Jewish Chanukah festival, all tied to the season.
The text traces how Romans exchanged gifts during festivals and notes that Christmas boxes and cards echo ancient rites. It mentions France giving gifts on New Year’s Eve to children and compares practices in England Germany Italy and the United States with Santa visiting at Christmas.
The Teutons valued holly as luck and hung evergreens indoors. A legend linked plants to the Nativity and crown of thorns symbolism. Puritans banned holly and mistletoe as pagan decorations.
The text traces Christmas gift traditions from Holland and St Nicholas to Woden and wooden shoes, to Bonhomme Noel in France, and then to England and the United States where children added stockings. It notes stockings hold more gifts and become a common holiday custom.
The Puritans predicted the disappearance of Christmas carols and discouraged singing them. Yet carols have become a long standing Christmas tradition tracing to early Christian Rome with roots in the French Noel of the eleventh century and German Weihnachtlieder.
The United States lights a national Christmas tree, a 267 foot giant Sequoia in General Grant National Park near Fresno, California. Since 1926 devotional and patriotic services are held beneath the tree and broadcast nationwide.
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